Show NO SEEING AMERICA FIRST The Tho transAtlantic steamship st com corn companies panics and the tha shopkeepers and hotel keepers of Europe are sure sura of a rich harvest of ot American dollars this year Cabin accommodations in every steamer leaving the port of at New York between en April 15 16 and Aug August 1 have been sold to tourists from this country who ere go abroad to spend their money The rhe rush is so BO great that people who put in their heir applications for berths or state staterooms staterooms rooms six weeks ago failed to get their names upon the passenger lists lieth Some of these people may know something about the land of their birth though the percentage is doubtless small It Itis IB ls a notorious fact that many of them upon being questioned about the Yel Yellowstone Yellowstone national park the Yosemite valley v the big trees and other oth r wonders of this country by Europeans who have traveled show a I woeful lack of know knowl knowledge 1 edge i here are many places in Eu Europe Eurove Europe rope rove worth vIsiting but none more nore BO so than the th wonders of nature at home The slogan of See Sea America First is evidently not being heeded to any great extent by the wealthy class in the east eat eastern ern era states It should be Before re going abroad each and every everyone one of at them should be able to talk intelligently about his or her own country and not I be confined to telling the foreigners about the single city in ln which they happen to reside re Ide when they finally take the ocean voyage As a matter of ot fact the eastern people are growing more provincial every day When they cease chasing the almighty dollar for a Urn lim limited length of time and seek rest and am relaxation Instead of coming to the boundless oundle s west they fight for passage to Europe Perhaps that Is one reason rean reas n for the growing lack of sympathy be between b between tween the tha two sections of the country The advent of ot the American men and women with money in Europe is a god godsend godsend send end to all classes with whom they thy come In contact In The publicans publican special cable service from frem Paris Pans it is stated that the tha gay capi capital capital capital tal is already filling up with Americans Am ricans and that there Is great rejoicing in inconsequence Inconsequence consequence The Th pilgrims pay the tha top prices for everything they buy and are easy victims for that class of Parisians who make their living by looking an a tr tourists with more money than experience ence once While the amount of or cold cash taken out of the United States bach ach year and spent in ln Europe cannot be estimated it will doubtless run ron into the hundreds of ot millions Taken In con connection connection connection with the sums secured by the titled Europeans Europ ans who capture Ameri American can brides the total wilt will probably reach an appalling amount No other coun country country country try on earth could stand such a drain upon its cash cosh resources and avoid a financial crash The one ne consoling re reflection reflection fleetion Is that the United States is ismore ismore more than passing rich and that some of the poor devils d over the water would probably starve without the tho American dollars being constantly tossed into their laps |